Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
The fool learns by suffering.
Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.